Open AccessA family of tests for irreducibility of polynomials
Author(s) -
Steven H. Weintraub
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the american mathematical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.968
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1088-6826
pISSN - 0002-9939
DOI - 10.1090/proc/13033
Subject(s) - irreducibility , factorization , simple (philosophy) , mathematics , factorization of polynomials , pure mathematics , algebra over a field , polynomial , algorithm , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology , matrix polynomial
We combine a simple observation about factorization of polynomials with some previous work to obtain a family of irreducibility tests, which we then illustrate.